Seasonality of acute kidney injury in a tertiary hospital academic center: an observational cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim of our study was to describe seasonal trends of acute kidney injury (AKI) and its relationship with weather conditions in a hospitalized population.

Methods

We retrospectively collected demographic (age, sex), clinical (ICD-9-CM codes of diagnosis discharge) and laboratory data (creatinine values) from the inpatient population admitted to Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS between January 2010 and December 2014 with inclusion of all patients ≥18 years with at least two values available for creatinine. The outcome of interest was AKI development, defined according to creatinine kinetics criteria. The exposures of interest were the months and seasons of the year; air temperature and humidity level were also evaluated. Log-binomial regressi

SUBMITTER: Lombardi G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7811228 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature